At the
Porto Digital, in Recife and other cities in Brazil, Dr. Almeida in conjunction with the RiSE staff has been the main vehicle to introduce reuse ideas in industrial
and academic environment been responsible also to define the M.Sc. and Ph.D. courses focused on software reuse at the
Federal University of Pernambuco, C.E.S.A.R EDU, and UFBA.
In the last years, Dr. Almeida has been Visiting Researcher in important groups working with software reuse such as University of Mannheim
(Colin Atkinson's Group), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) (Bertrand Meyer's Group) [short period] and Malardalen University (MDH) (Ivica Crnkovic's Group).
He is also an IEEE Senior Member, Senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), member of the Brazilian Computer Society, and Full Member of the Bahia Academy of Sciences (ABC).

Global Software Engineering and its impact on Software Reuse: What are the Opportunities and Challenges?, keynote speaker, 4th Workshop on Distributed Software Development (WDDS), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 2010.